Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until now, the 270,000 participants in the demonstration project-a joint effort of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society-automatically received annual mammograms, along with a manual examination of the breasts and thermograms (tumor-detecting heat pictures). But under the new policy, mammograms will be restricted, until further studies are completed, to women 50 and above-an age group known to have profited from them-and others who have a greater than ordinary risk of breast cancer: women who have a family history of the disease, have lumps or pains in their chests or have reached...
...cases of lung cancer, the treatments produced extensive destruction of malignant cells and noticeably improved the condition of the patients; four of them are still alive. In one cancer victim with an abdominal tumor six inches in diameter, the growth was shrunk to only 1½ inches; five months after it was removed, there was no detectable regrowth. One of the most impressive cases involved a patient with a cancerous kidney. Except for a small portion that had apparently been missed by the radio field, the entire tumor was destroyed...
Senator Hubert Humphrey, 64. Pinhead tumor of the urinary bladder in 1973 was treated with X rays, and follow-up examination in 1974 showed no signs of cancer. Since then, he "has remained in excellent health with no evidence of tumor...
...bouquet of flowers on the table. His face is somewhat puffy, his sensitive eyes watery at times, his neck baggy now under the thrusting jaw. But at 64, he looks fit -surprisingly so. Three years ago, Humphrey underwent a series of debilitating X-ray treatments for a bladder tumor that seemed precancerous. He had a severe reaction to the treatments and was flown from Waverly back to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. One staffer says he thought Humphrey was surely going to die. Blood transfusions and rest brought him back fast, and his doctors told him he was fully recovered. Today...
Other molecular biological research on tumor cells is aimed at identifying proteins on the surface of the cell, like Folkman's Angiogenesis Factor, which are foreign to the victim. Genetically, too, "the cancer cell is of a given differentiated type that loses control of its own growth," Benacerraf says. He is on the fourth floor of Building D at the stolid gray Med School quadrangle, and when he alludes to other investigations of cancer, it is usually by reference to the floor or building on the quadrange where the research is being conducted. His only apparent bias seems...